Name: Un Lugar Para Mungo (in Spanish)
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Author: Douglas Stuart
ISBN: 9788439741435

portada Un Lugar Para Mungo (in Spanish)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Douglas Stuart

Publisher

Literatura Random House

Collection

Random House

Year

2022

Language

Spanish

Pages

464

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

23.00 x 14.00

Weight

0.37 kg.

ISBN

9788439741435

ISBN13

9788439741435

Edited in

España

Edition No.

Synopsis "Un Lugar Para Mungo (in Spanish)"

REGRESA EL GANADOR DEL PREMIO BOOKER POR HISTORIA DE SHUGGIE BAIN «Un lugar para Mungo lo confirma: Douglas Stuart es un genio . -Ron Charles, The Washington Post «Un puñetazo directo al corazón . -Publishers Weekly A sus quince años, Mungo, un adolescente con una sensibilidad diferente al resto de los chicos del vecindario vive en un barrio obrero del Glasgow de la era post-Thatcher, en el seno de una familia protestante: sin padre, con una madre alcohólica y un hermano que representa todo lo que él odia. En un ambiente masculinizado, rodeado de paro y peleas callejeras, solo cuenta con el apoyo y el cuidado de su hermana, Jodie. Tras un altercado familiar, su madre decide enviar a Mungo de pesca con dos desconocidos de Alcohólicos Anónimos para que hagan de él un hombre de provecho. De camino a un lago del oeste de Escocia con esos extraños cuyas bromas de borrachos esconden un pasado turbio, Mungo solo piensa en regresar al lado de su amigo James, el único lugar donde ha descubierto que puede ser él mismo. Douglas Stuart nos acerca, con una prosa lírica y vívida, al peligroso primer amor entre dos adolescentes en esta lúcida y conmovedora historia sobre el sentido de la masculinidad y del deber para con la familia, las violencias a las que se enfrentan las identidades queer y los riesgos de querer demasiado a alguien. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Imbuing the everyday world of its characters with rich lyricism and giving full voice to people rarely acknowledged in the literary world, Young Mungo is a gripping and revealing story about the bounds of masculinity, the divisions of sectarianism, the violence faced by many queer people, and the dangers of loving someone too much. Growing up in a housing estate in Glasgow, Mungo and James are born under different stars --Mungo a Protestant and James a Catholic-- and they should be sworn enemies if they're to be seen as men at all. Yet against all odds, they become best friends as they find a sanctuary in the pigeon dovecote that James has built for his prize racing birds. As they fall in love, they dream of finding somewhere they belong, while Mungo works hard to hide his true self from all those around him, especially from his big brother Hamish, a local gang leader with a brutal reputation to uphold. And when several months later Mungo's mother sends him on a fishing trip to a loch in Western Scotland with two strange men whose drunken banter belies murky pasts, he will need to summon all his inner strength and courage to try to get back to a place of safety, a place where he and James might still have a future.

Douglas Stuart

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Douglas Stuart is a Scottish-American writer born in Glasgow in 1976. After studying at the Scottish College of Textiles and earning a master's degree from the Royal College of Art in London, he moved to New York at the age of 24, where he developed a successful career in fashion design. Later, he ventured into literature, publishing his first novel, "Shuggie Bain", in 2020.

"Shuggie Bain" is a novel that portrays life in Glasgow during the 1980s and was awarded the Booker Prize in 2020, making Stuart the second Scot to receive this honor.

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